We started using the Brightcove video distribution service over on MobileAppsToday and MobileDevicesToday. I wanted to see what it looked like on my personal MobileViews blog. So, here’s a short video I created earlier today for MobileAppsToday.
The video demonstrates how Google Chrome works with multi-touch on the Asus Eee PC 1000HA’s trackpad under Windows 7 Beta. Note, that Google Chrome does not work with multi-touch on an Asus Eee PC 1000H running Windows XP.
I was just taking a look at the specs for the Dell Mini 12 netbook and noticed it uses the newer Atom Z530 processor instead of the N270 used in most of the popular netbooks that preceded it. While looking at its specs on Intel’s site…
Intel® Atom™ Processor Z530 (512K Cache, 1.60 GHz, 533 MHz FSB)
…I noticed that the box for the Intel® Virtualization Technology was checked for this processor. The N270 does not support hardware virtualization assist. This might mean that virtualization hypervisors, like Microsoft Virtual PC and VirtualBox, that support hardware virtualization assist may get a performance boost when run on Z530 based netbooks.
If you only have 1GB of RAM, you will need to choose Guest OS platforms carefully. But, you should be able to run lightweight OSes like Puppy Linux, Xubuntu, Windows 98SE, and Windows 2000 easily in Guest OS with 256MB RAM allocated to it.
I’m planning to buy a new netbook for Windows 7 Beta testing. So, I’m definitely going to look for netbooks with the Z530 processor now.
I’ve found two wireless access points (WAP) that Asus Eee PC 1000H will not connect to so far. I have not ID-ed the hardware. My Acer Aspire One connected to both of these WAPs. So, if WiFi compatibility is important, I would stick with the Aspire One. That said, I’m enjoying use the Eee PC 1000H in general and took it over to my brother-in-law’s home earlier today. After getting the WPA2 passcode, I connected to their WAP and noticed I had a 135Mbps connection. I only have an 802.11g WAP in my home, so I never thought to check what the 1000H supported.
Since my MacBook also supports 802.11n, I guess I should consider springing for an 802.11n WAP for my home one of these days.